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How long have Homo Sapiens been around? More or less than three million years?
by calderknight 4y ago
How long have Homo Sapiens been around? More or less than three million years?
- stuxnet79 4y agoAnatomically modern 'homo sapiens' have been around for much less than that - 120,000 years
- akiselev 4y agoThe oldest homo sapien fossil is about 300,000 years old. 3 million years ago would still be in the latter half of the reign of the Australopithecus genus. Homo habilis hadn't even appeared yet to kick off our genus.
- calderknight 4y agoThat makes sense. I was confused because I just read a paragraph that talked about archaic humans of 2 million years ago. But now I realise it was using the term in a more general sense - specific to Homo rather than Homo Sapien